The Sun. — London, England, 1808-04-18 00:00:00

• reSsias,. thotigh. all, the \\•or'lci kne . wo,it ts-lonly de , he Ship sttiek fast en ground, that becitthe tent e, and that it remained suspended during the ! • itecessary t to burn her on the :rip& where ..she Wtis late wars of Rnssia, 'when; perhaps, that Power Might have claimed it. . • qing : 550 Danish seamen made Prisoners of War The Cour of Denmark, in order to justify its were landed here this morning. proceeding, hesitates not to make all kinds of asser tons, dares io defend the injustice of Russia, and be trays a premeditated plot, and , all this it does to con ceal the chiet, nay only reason, which is, that-Den'. mark is the Ally of France. But injustice and false hood find their end—honour and truth will triumph in their turn. His Majesty, relying on the justice of his cause, hopes, with conscious pride of his reigning over a brave and loyal people, so often tried by dangers, and always held up by the Al mighty, that the same providence will vouchsafe to ble,s his army, and restore to his subjects a safe and honourable peace, to the contusion of his enemies. Stockholm, March 21, 1808. GOTTENBURGH, MAUCH 29.—8 y the I;st ac counts from Finland we find, that the Swedes were retreating to Tornea. The Russian army had been greatly augmented, some reports say to 60,000 Men ; it is said tbatevery additional regiment that has marched from St. Petersburgh‘ to Finland, has been first mustered before the dtvor - of Baron &I'm NCK, the Swedish Minister there, in the most insulting manner. _ _ HI LL'EI'IN. GatpsnoLst CASTLE, MARCH 30--His Royal Majesty received yesterday two reports froth Count .KuicpsPoa, Commander in Chief of the Artily in Finland, bearing date, head-quarters, Longitirs and Nerper, not far from Wasa, March 20th and 23d. The Army eotitinues .Im, good order its march to Ulenberg, in order to form a junaion with the co lumn of Count COONS TEAT, Chief of Brigade. The rear was almost daily engaged with the Enemy's Light Troops, but a more considerable affair took place under the orders of Count SEWENBJ EL:4, Ad- jutant-General, and of Colonel GRIPENBERG, Chief of Brigade, in which his Majesty's Troops, with the utmost gallantry, withstood the attack of the Enemy, far superior in number, and cove►ed the retreat of the rest* of the Army, which carried away all the magazines formed in Brorneborg. MARCH '3O. This morninge arrived here his Bri tannic Majesty's Ships the Stately and Nassau, of 64 guns each, commanded by Captains PARKER and CAMPBELL, having on board 500 Danish prison 7. ears, taken out of the Prince Christian Man of War, Of 74 guns, . which struck to these SLiips, on the evening of the 12d, od Zealand. She maintained a funning fight of more than two hours, before she struck, and afterwards went on shore, when it be came necessary 'to set fire to and destroy her. The Stately had five men killed and forty-seven wound ed in the a&ion the Nassau one killed and sixteen wounded. The Dane had 50 killed, among‘eliich three Lieuteliants, and 88 wounded. Thus is the 'navy of Denmark reduced to one Ship of the. Line, which is said to be at Copenhagen. By advises frotlnk; Belsingburgh, received to day, we learn that as late as the 26th inst. the French had not crossed the Belts, though it had been confidently reported they Were to embark tor Zealand on the lath, Count MIOLKI, the Danish Minister at Stockholm, and Mr. GILDENFOLM, the Secretary, arrived at Helsing burgh a few days since under a Swedish guard, and embarked in a Flag of Truce for Elsineur. MAUCH 25.—A conscription of alt the young un married men, without respect to rank, betweeo the ages of 18 and 25 years, throughout Sweden, flas been ordered to take place immediately ; this, it is. thought, will raise 150,000 men.--A great many regiments have gone, and more are marching to the frontiers of Norway, which, it is said, are not to a& merely on the defensive. The English Ships of 'War which have been frozen up here, all gut clear from the ice some days ago and sailed ; and by ad. vices received to-day tram fielsingburgle we learn, they. have arrived at the Sound. They consist of three Sail of the Line, one Frigate, and some smal l er Vessels. Since Russia, Denmatk, and Prussia, have 4eclared against this country, all intercourse is tstriCtly forbidden here, and the letters direCted' to these Countries have been returned to the writers. Arum 4.—A Danish Flag of Truce arrived at trelsingburgh on the Ist instant, for the purpose of making enquiry respelling the number of killed and wounded on board the Prince Christian Man of War in the late ;talon. All the Prisoners, five hundred and twenty-five, were landed here yesterday. , A Privateer,. fitted out at Marstrand, sent into that :port, the day beforelesterday, four Danish Vessels she captured in their passag e from Norway to Jut land.—The.Masttr of one o f them has made oath before the Commandant of Marstrand, that three Ships of the Line, and 24,000 troops. were (*- petted to arrive at Drontheim froM the Texel; slid that it was said in that part of Norway which he left, they were already come. The report of a great number of French troops being in Jutland, gains ground. Ten English Mails are . now due here.— The Forward Gun-brig arrived front Yarmouth this morning. it is rumoured here, that Baron NICOLA Y, Who was on his journey from London to Saint Peters burgh, has been arrested at Prelsluhaven, and brought back to Slockhnim, where he is placed pu tl , der a strong military - guard ; a great number of let-`: ters, aucl the dispatches of the Russian ' Minister, ALorEus, were, it la said, taken, upon him. Artt t t. e.—The day before yesterday arrived here this Britannie.Majesty's Ship Dißatori of 64 guns, together with the Tartnius.Bolith, Salcette Frigate, Daphne, Snake, and Char i ger Gun-brigs, Btc. These Shtps have brought a great quantity of arms.and.am illUtiiliOn for the Swe7dislt. Government, and a large sum of motel.. Last night also arrived Admiral Sir SAMUEL. 1-loop, in the Centaur, with several other Ships, w hose Bane:4 I cannot yet learn many more I am told are gone to the Sound : these arrivals have sliffesed it general sati•ilaaion here, as we now think ourselves secure tioni any invasion ut the French and Danes, though, indeed, we have as yet no account to be depended upon of the'French having Come over to Zealand, or even of their having entered Ha. stein,--There is no news to=day from Finland, nor 'lOl hear that operations have yet commenced on the frontiers of Notway, where a considerable Swedish army is assembled. STOCKHOLM, APRIL 4.—His Royal Majesty has teen informed, by a report from Vice-Admiral "K B, Commanding Admiral in Cat lscrona, of they 30th of last month, that the first Division of 1114' S wedish Fleet, consisting of five Sail of the Lino , two l E rigates,• and four Brigs of War, set sail from that Port the 30th March early in the morning,, un der the orders of —ear-Admiral Baron CEDICKSTROM I and on the departure of the above report, had al ready cleared the Bar of Carlscrona. GOTTENBURGII, MARCH 30.--Two English Sail of the Line, the Stately and Nassau, arrived %ere , this morning, under to orders of Capt..PAttx,en,.. after having taken, soon after they had entered the : 1 - Belt, the Danish Ship of the Line Prince Cytstjan Frederick - . • j * of 74 gum, which ran ashore "the inst. in order to' avoid her being taken. During the s Riots , 80 men and three Officers -were killed • but " Count CRONSTEDT, Chief of Brigade, reported from Knopio, Alipitka, and Idensobenonder date the 13th, 61 LI, and 13th March, that with the troops un der his command, he is continuing his march to Ulenberg, pursuant to his orders. • He had some , Severe engagements with the Enemy on the 11th near Lippanirta, and the 1 5th, near Knopio, during which a cannonade was for some time kept up vn both sides, without the Russian troops hav ing been able, notwithstanding their great supe riority in number, to make any successful attack on your Majesty's troops ; they were, on the contrary, continually repulsed." GOTTENBURGII, APRIL 6---Intelligence has been. received from Matsu-and, that the Swedish Sloop Basta, commanded by Ensign WESTBECK, has taken and carried into Marsrrand harbour six Danish and Norwegian vessels,' laden with iron, timber, oats, witeat, malt, and flour. MS SWEDISH MAJESTY'S I'ROCIAMATION, ToUenING THE LEV Y-r.N.MASSE,, DATED ST OCKHOLM, 141,1 r OF MARCH, 1808. " We, QUSTAVVS Anou.nus, make known, that, as . the Eastern Frontiers of the Kitt;(loin are already attacked by the Enemy, and those in the West and North are likewise threatened, we tee! ourselves called upon to make the utmost exertions for the defence of our invaded Country. For this purpose, and in order that we may be able to raise a suffi cient force to attack the Enemy, it is our will that all young men from 18 to 2b years, both inclusive, of whatever rank or condition they may be, who have not enlisted in the regular army of olihtiA, or navy, shall hold themselves in readiness to take up arms for the defence of Our native land, and aisens 'ble at such places as shall be pointed out to them at a moment's notice." ST00;1101.14, MARCH 18.—The French General of Division, GRANDJZAN, informed Lieutenant WAIIRENBERG, by a Letter, of the 6th of October last year, by General BRUNE'S order, that the Swedish Packets would not be molested on th e ir ar rival at Grosses Zuker, in the Isle of Rugen, but , be allowed to enter that Port, until the exchange of French and Swedish prisoners should have been completed. In spite of their soleMn assurance, two Swedish Packets, which on the strength thereof were dispatched tioto Istadt to Rugen, have been detained there by the French commanding Officer, and declared good and lawful prizes. On board of one of them was his► Majesty's *Aid-de-Camp, Major. DAttMFELT, who was sent with a flag of truce to Rugen, and, con trary to all usages of.war, detained in Stralsund un-.. der a,militarY guard and on board the other. was Major SCIIONTZ, of the artillery, who was likewiSe declared a Prisoner of war. This condut on the' part of the French, by no means unprecedented, is recorded as an additional proof of the well known fa&, that no reliance can be placed on the most solemn and most sacred promise of that people. Srocacuoi.m, M.tacit . 20.—Lieutenant-General Baron CA nPALON has made a report, dated the Igth inst. stating, that the English Squadron which was frozen in near Gottenburgh, and consists of three Sail of the Line, two Irrigates, and three Brigs of War, got'afloat the said day, and .is ready to set sail with the first fair wind and weather. The following Men of War have touched at Ma. deira since it has been in our possession Surveil 'ante, Hyacinth, Confance, and Raves, bound to the Brazils with . dispatches • Lively, on a cruize off the Western islands ; Viper Schooner, Lieut. ToWsixe, with dispatches from Sir CHARLES COT-. TaN, and to wait the arrival of Sir SIDNEY SMITH, who is on his way to the Brazils Baraeouta, with dispatches for the East Indies; his, with an East India Convey ; Gaerrier, for Jamaica ; Franchise ptid Cherub, with a Convoy for, the West Indies. Th e Comris has left the - Madeira station to join Sir .C; it Alt Lliti COTTuH. Upwards of 8 Portuguese tmany of whom are petsons of distinffion), who 'made their escape &am Lisbon, got on beard Sir Cud% 1.1:11 COTTON'S Squndion, and have hince arrived 'at Portsmouth, are to be conveyed to the Brazils in two Transports which have been ordered for the purpose, and are to sail . with the next convoy. 1 3 /1(ILL. It is (r frOm 64 intention to insult the . i/lenio'ry this rinfortunaie iitan.--IVhatmer his tales arid his vice i nary have been, he has now ce6'ed from troubritig the worid', but his character and his con duct 4,inglit to be the subject of some otiervation, since he had forced himself into the,notice of man kind, and it is therefore.•a duty to Society to hold bim tbrth as a warning to those who may act ~from sitnitar motives and with similar views.—He was by no Means destitute of abilities, which *light have enabled him to pass respectably through life if his eotiduct had .been directed by right principles. But he was vain, selfish, and ungrateful.--41e had ac quired some fortune in the East Indies, but not sufficient to justify the style of lifc which he adopted on hii return to this Country. In this re spect, however, he was actuated by policy rather than pride,, for he thought by instituting charges against Marquis WiiLLESLEY, he should • have. raised himself into diatinaion, and perhaps be bribed into silence. H'is ingratitude to that Nobleman was of the basest kind, and be was properly pun ished by the deepest mortification, when he found that the Marquis, instead of entering into any com promise .with hi worthless antagonist, courted an inquiry into his Condi4, and looked for a recom pence of his great services.in the approbation of his Country.—But Mr. I'AuLt. had in a great measure accomplished his purprise, for he became known to the public, and in order to keep his name alive, he not only persevered in his Charges ifi'fainst - MarquiS WELLKSLEY, but allied himself with this; most des perate political faeaion in this Country ; and, to complete the measure of his silly ambition, an nounced himself as a Candidate fur the Represent ation of Westminster. The violence and scurrility with which he endevoured to support his preten sions were as obvious as his vanity and pi esuMptton. At length it was Ibund, by the desperate party to whom we allude, that his finances were not in a pros perous way ; and, therefore, considering ,him as likely to be rather a but-then than a useful instru ment, it was determined that be should be' disOard, ed, and the office was left to a man grown grey in artifice, and whose craft is. only to be equalled by •the hardness of his heart. But this man had,an ad ditional motive far readily undertaking ,the despica ble office, since his 'interest was atfeaed, and he feared that yr, l'aut f i. might be a rival in his:de signs upon fe dupe whom lie wished to keep ex clusively to himself.---Mr. Nutt. then,,witheet the SILLIOW of any reason that his own 'party' could Urge for this unexampled diStuissiun, 'Was at once doomed to be the mark for a public at tack, in order to bring on him diSgrace and misery. The design Was obviotis, 'and the man ner was contemptible.=--Mr. Yirt.t. answer ed, this attack with Spirit and ability, and pro duced damning proofs of the duplicity and false hood of the map who assailed: him, which also deep ly implicated the person whom the latter intended • by these means to secure tO The rest of Mr. Pstn.t.,'S history is well known. He engaged in a duel with Sir FRANCIS BURD2I7, whom be had really never offencied, except by using hisiiame in an Advertisement in such, a manner as their intimacy and their' joint politieal views folly justified. The result of this duel Was a wound, which, with . the embarrasaments ,of Pavt.i.'s situation, from which there was no pfospeet of re lief, gra,luall impaired his intellects, and at length, stung with shame, mortification, and despair, drove him to the dreadful 'resnerce of suicide. His chief assailant, it he has any feeling‘ will perhaps indulge a savage triumph over his 'deplorable end, but all his other enemies, ilthey have any thing liberal in their iature, will pity his miserable fate, however they nay despise the folly and abhor the vices by which was occasioned. Captain GEORGR flora left town to join his Ship, the itiOury, at Chatham, as Captain of the Baltic Fleet, this morning. Yesterday morning, at h alt past eight o'clock, it being Easter Sunday, their MAnsTilis, the Dukes of KENT :OW CAMBIMWE, AVOUsTA, ELIZABETH, MARY, , SoEIAJA, and AMKLIA, ReCOl3l - by the conmess of PEMBROKE, Ladies-A. Comaaut.ANo and BucxLior, the lion. Mr. BUCK.- LXY, Generals GWYNNii and VITZIttiY, attended at St. George's Chapel, and' heard the morning service read ; .afterwards the Sacrament was administered to them by the ArChbiShOp Qt . CANTEitAUItY and the lion. Dr. LHOGR, the Dean of Windsor, at the conclusion of which. they returned to the Palace to breakfast. At halt' past ten o'clock they went .again to the Chapel, and heard a sermon by the Rev. Dr. HAJ,LAN, trt,m the iloth chapter of St. John, and the 29th verse;. they afterwards, accothpanted by the Archbishop of CA NTHRBVitY, Went to Frogtnure, where his MAilisTy dined. • . . . *he. Parke v. re Yes . terday viiited by n phalnox of holiday folk, tashioonbles, an4.equestriani of overy description. .. . . . Another very aEtive , impress toox..place. on the River on Saturday, prute6tions in.general'being (its. regarded. . . Doilwa G.—Saturday morning a' meeting took place an Southsea Common, near Portmuouth, be tween Capt. MA any, 'of his Majesty's, Ship T/iatia, and Captain RArasAvi, of. the Royal Marines ' but whilst they were settling the distance at which they should fire, the Hon. Captain BOYLE arrived 'on the .ground, and declared 'that, by'the order of Admiral MorcrAova, Captain MnAKt was his prisoner. Captain M. of course, surrendered himself, as un-' tier An arrest, and, atter some words of altercation, the Parties left the ground. Mr. VANCE, Surgeon of Haslar Hospital, was in; attendance, in case his • professional MiStance,should be necessary. Adtiel was thoght on Saturday morning. on Ted dington, or rather Twickenham Common, between an American Gentleman of fortune, re siding in Nottingham•strect, and Captain W. of the Navy, in consequence of a dispute at a Cotfee-house on Friday evening. The parties are halt brothers, and the dispute was a family one. In the first fire there was no injury sustained, and Mr. M. second to the American Gentleman., interfered to adjust the differences, bin did not succeed; and on firing again eacli were wounded, Mr. .1)-#!'ir dangeronily in the shoulder, and the Captain in the pistol artn: . 11r. enapman, on Friday, concluded his pedes , man kilt, of one mile an hour for.one hundred sne ' cessive hours,- -wi t h grea t cl ip", ....Sortie Of dip liittia wile,/ he walked 111 1.3 f and 10 rninates 14VD2'4. .‘ MA DRAs, Ocr. et .—Wa haVe authentie accoutA conveying the pleasing intiornation of the capture of the fast-sailing Vrinch National ,Corvette Chittstuf, of t 6 guns, elf the Nicobar islands,' by his Melia+ ty's ship fictizba y i atter a chace of 14 hours. Btt ACM Lroan i 8 s tor. 2 1 .—The Artillery. pet achl mentofThe - Upiiel• Provinces passq.t his station yes. terday morning. 1-is 141.i . j sty's 53d regiment Is ex praed in the course o' a_day or two. Some German and Dutch Papers have. reached town. They contain an ediel of the King . Of Ptcus• stA, Aated the £7th of January, publithed at Bras law, the 15,th March, declaring that he bad ceded ' the Province of New Silesia, to be added to th* Duchy of Wartia. A Decree of the King of WEST° PH A LlA,dated the hth of 14'41nuary, directs that some Englighinbtts, seized at Hamburgh on the Ist, shall.; be-, burnt.. Tne goods sequestered at Ham burgh between the 25d of Ntober and the 3 Ist of November last, have been released. it is said that Etruria, the !nark of Ancona, and Civita Veec4ia, are to be united with the Kingdom of .., . Another . portion of the Eleaurate of Hanover has been ceded to the King of W ESTPLIBLIA, compris ing the bailiwick of Polle, the town of Roden wcrder, . . and parts of tlle Wiliwicks of Goopside and Opsen. Monsieur LA tnevAnivnE, tho French Consul at Danzic„ has been arrested there by ordr of General RA . PP, and *sent prisoner to Pdrii, -accused of hav ing accepted bribes to im toduce Ilritish goods, .and by thi, afezins, within a few 'months, ro'have ac quired tour milltons of (mom. Five Sail of the Lille are staled to i l rare been lately'built at Toulon, and manned-by seamen obtained from Genoa, Venice, 8:c. Austria is stated to have joined the Confe deracy against Sweden, and to have intimated to the Swedish Charge d'Affaires to quit Vienna, Accounts from Cadiz mention, that the French troops were on their march fo Madrid ; that the advanced ggard was expeded there n the i7t h, and that they were to be followed by an army of 40,u0u men. It had been recommended to the King and Royal to retire to Seville, but his Majesty retusecho abandon his capital, and declared his re solution to'stand or fall with it. The greatest con fusion acid' dismay is - said to lure prevailed every where. The Besnlution Privateer, of Giterniey ; Spartan►, SEYMOUR, from Malta for London ; Exterprizt, TAPLEY, fronl.ditto ter Liverpool; Jean, KINNEAR, from Newfoundland. for tireuadA ; .Pers•verenee, GALE, fronlThoidad for Halifax; Moitor. WA•rint- SIAN, from Catalonia ha Philadelphia ; Eliza,-, and „it • Ship (name unknowt9, alt' from Liverpool lor'New-Xork, have been eaptared and. burnt by the Hariense and Hermoine French Frigates, which arrived in Fratice on the v7th ult. from Martinique ; they also captured an Ames Wan Ve3sel (rem Liverpotil for Boston, which they gave up to. the crews of ..the Amerion Vessels they had 'captured, to.proceed to America. • • In the Prize Court, Bombay, Sir .T.Am es Mscititt- Tostt gave judgment, on :the t Ith a Sept. in the • case of an Amerman Vessel trading bet Ween Manilla • and Batavia, which was detained by our gruizers in DeeCother 1806. It was contended: for the captors, • that being , trading ,bet weep enemies colonies she was acting in direct violation of his Majesty's In. squalor's ()Untie 1803 ; - and for the claimants, that the trade to Manilla or Batavia was not foreigners being allowed to trade there in time of peace. Commissions had been issued by the Court to ascertain the truth of thevlatter statement, from returns to which it appeared that, during the last peace,. ports in those colonies were open to. tOreign- • cri without restriction, except as to opium and spe cie,tt the port of Batavia. Sir JAMES MACKINTO3II deCided*Nbat neither Batavia nor Manilla were such colonies as to render an) , trading thereto by neutral nation:, in time of war, illegal, and that notwith standing the letter of the instruetions of 1803, some thing farther was necessary, namely, that the trade to find with those . colonies was prohibited to nest- • Inds in time of peace. The vessel was restored. Dispatches werereceived,un Saturday at the Ad miralty, dated the 14th inst., on board ,the Mermaid Frigate of 32 guns. They slate, that on the morn iug of„,the I.4th, Thursday last, the Mermaid fell in with five French Schooners. tiont . Dunkirk, steering Westward, close in• i shore,runderahe protection of flying artillery. The Mermaid approached as close as possible, and opened a -well-dirited ,fire, which lasted a considerable time, and did the enemy much damage, _ Unfortunately, however, the wind shift ed with the tide, and prevented •the Mermaid front eifeaing their total destrudion, Our • Squadron in . the Adriatic has. experienced much kindness from.the inhabitants of the Seven Islands, who have expressed:their desire to cu-operate with a British force in the expulsion o f . t h e y rehe l l ,• whoare notin sufficient nutubersto sustain theniselvett against a :very inederate British: toree,•-• At Corfu they •have.only fifteen hundred men, at Zaino .only one. hundred, and fifty at • Aphalonia. This ,latter 'lsland would be an acquisition of great value to na, as we Might keep- it with. .500 men. The inhk. ho have 340 Vessel's, are particularly.at tached to the English, and by no means partial to the French: Died, on the 12th inst. at Moira-House, inDub lin, Eciz usiern, Countess Dowager of IVonta.; in the 77th yt.Xar of her age, Her Ladyship was daugh ter of TimoetilLUS, Earl of • HUNTINGDON, and by thei .1)441 of her brother, ,Faaticts Earl of- Hurrr- INartotv without issue, succeeded to the ancient. Barunies of liungerford, Haitiogs, Botreaux, lins, Moels, Peverell, Newinareh, and De Horuet, CORN-EX(.IIANDE, APRUL i8. , --The supply of \Vheat to-day is rather considerable, and •toe sales . dull, at somewhat lower piices; Barley anti Malt keep their prices; Beans of bar h sorts iiice . ‘64\l; ItVhiti3 Pease are again cheaper; 'Grey rather.' so; there Are alsoconsiderable supplies of Oats, ,and saki thereof rather lower; Flour on the terms of last week. SMITIIFIELI) Aritti. IS. This day's market was tolerably well supplied( with pri►turiieyii4ts, and the'shew of Cattle in general was pretty gond; Beef and Mutton are dearer than our lair reports Pork and Veal are cheaper t Lamb supports last priet4, and the trade for the most part was sonlewnat brisk. The sales in the Haymarket 'ere rather litely; Nay, Straw, and Clover, hot. go; price. since Fridays